Farmer Spivey - Crazy old goon who makes a secret manure ingredient that causes objects to grow; hates Gordy's guts and gives him the manure to feed to his flies.

Mr. and Mrs. Belcher - Gordy's fighting parents who have to put up with their weirdo son. Dad often insults him. Both are killed by Gordy's manure fueled flies.

Jenny - Pretty girl who kinda likes Gordy, until he feeds her cookies with dead flies in them.

Poodle Lady - A stupid old woman who puts her poodle in a microwave.

Poodle - Cute puppy. Blown up by his stupid owner when put in a microwave.

The Plot:

Michael has his two annoying cousins Kyle and Josh over for vacation and they all decide to tell each other horror stories in a tent to try and give each other the willies. They tell a bunch of different stories which involve a fat KFC-eating woman eating a fried rat, an old mans death in a haunted house ride, an old lady putting her poodle in a microwave, a nerd feeding his teacher and school bullies to a monster which turns out to be the school janitor (!), and a fat kids obsession with dead flies, which soon gets serious when his flies become powered with a special manure. This is a silly and predictable, but very funny and watchable b-film. It seems like it was written by a 6 year old kid, but the director and the cast of familiar faces are great and the humor is done in a good, campy, tongue-in-cheek fashion. I found it on sale at the video store I work for, for 5 bucks and I am proud to own it. This is as bad and as fun as b-movies get. This is best to watch with the friends to have some good laughs. Besides, how can you resist a movie with the tagline "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll puke, you'll die."

Things I Learned From This Movie:

Those joyful Kentucky Fried Chicken employees often like to feed their customers fried rats instead of chicken.

Putting puppies in the microwave isn't such a good idea.

Close-ups of fat women stuffing their faces is gross.

Collecting dead flies is a pretty nasty hobby.

School janitors are actually flesh eating monsters that feed on school bullies.

57 mins - All right, now I think we get the point that Gordy's a weirdo.

66 mins - Wow, "Growing Pains" is on TV, Kirk Cameron and Tracey Gold must've had a hard time squeezing their busy schedules to make a cameo for this film.

68 mins - All right, now enough with the dream sequences.

81 mins - MESS-UP: Hey, it's the boom mike making a rather long cameo above Gordy. (Look through his window.)

Quotes:

Fat Lady: "I'd like the FIFTEEN PIECE BUCKET and a LARGE CHOCOLATE SHAKE!"

Brad: "Maybe Danny took a crap and thought it was a monster."

Danny: "The monster got Mr. Jenkins, it KILLED him! The monster KILLED Mr. Jenkins! It pulled off his head!"

Gordy's Dad: "Other kids play baseball and go to school dances. Other boys are interested in girls... ...hell, other kids even have some friends. All you do is sit downstairs in the dark and play with those... ...FILTHY DAMN FLIES!"

Gordy: "If I'm not home soon, my parent's are calling the cops." Farmer Spivey: "If you're not home soon, your parents are going to have a party!"

This is a great flick. I saw it when I was about ten, I think, and it stuck with me after one veiwing that long ago. My favorite line is referring to the fat woman eating the rat. "It must have gave her the urge to regurge."

In this movie there are three short, 1-minute long stories and two long, half-hour ones. The story of the woman going into a resteraunt and getting a chicken-fried rat, and the old lady who dries off her poodle in the microwave are both based on commonly-told urban legends. I hadn't heard of the story of the old man dying on an amusement park ride, but that is certainly something I could see happening.

The story of the monster in the school bathroom seems to me a hell of a lot like this one Stephen King short story,"Here There Be Tigers", which can be found in his book SKELETON CREW. In King's story, a little boy asks for permission in class from his mean teacher, Ms. Bird, if he can go to the bathroom so he can pee. The teacher lets him go, but when he gets there, he finds that somehow, someway a tiger has gotten at the far end of the bathroom and is lying in wait. The kid is unable to use the bathroom, and soon another kid from his class is sent to see what happened to him. That other kid is soon eaten. Then our protagonist, desperate to p**s, goes in a sink, and then Ms. Bird comes and sees him. She promises to punish him as soon as she fetches the other little boy...and then heads to where the tiger is.

The last story, about the kid with a bug obsession, I thought was pretty damn boring. It just took too long to really get going. However, I did think it was really cool when the kid has a dream that he turns on T.V. and sees an episode of CHARLES IN CHARGE where the main character is collecting bugs.

This movie speaks volumes about our society today! Kids are smarter than their parents and teachers give them credit for. Stories like this always have at least a germ of truth to them. They are the stories of legend handed down through the ages. It is a low budget film that could use some polish but I think if it had a bigger release back in the day, it would have inspired at least one sequel.

Me nad my friend saw this when we were like 5 0r 7. Were both eighteen right now and we finnally got the nerve to look it up again. It still scares the bejesus out of me. I can't even take a p**s in peace without the fear of a crap monster coming down from a vent and eating me.

Oh holy crap! This is one major stinker. I'd never seen this until about 7 months ago, when one of my friends showed it to me on V.H.S. My eyes will never forget the sight of the kid who played Donkeylips on Salute Your Shorts getting tortured by dudes in giant, poorly executed, house fly costumes.